Lunch Poems presents Leanne Dunic and Jónína Kirton (In Person)

May's Lunch Poems reading features poets Leanne Dunic and Jónína Kirton.

Leanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist. She is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review and is the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent works include a book of lyric prose and photographs entitled Wet (Talonbooks 2024) and the chapbook Salt Rich (Small Harbor Publishing 2024). Leanne lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

Jónína Kirton, an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet, was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Treaty 1, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Dene peoples and the homeland of the Métis. She graduated from the SFU Writer’s Studio in 2007 and was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Woman, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She currently lives in subsidized seniors housing in New Westminster BC, the unceded territory of the Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples. A chronic pain sufferer, she has walked with her husband as he has faced life threatening health issues. This journey is documented in her fourth book. Save Your Prayers – Send Money, released in April 2026 with Talonbooks.

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